Month: May 2018

Imagine living under the threat of the most horrific situation you’ve ever experienced in your life popping up in your brain at any given moment. This is the reality of someone living with post-traumatic stress (PTS), a mental health condition that affects many of our returning Service Members and Military Veterans. While stigma surrounding depression

Just in time for the 2018 Run to Home Base presented by New Balance, Boston Red Sox players Chris Sale, Mookie Betts and Dustin Pedroia have joined forces to launched a new initiative aimed at raising awareness of the invisible wounds affecting one-third of our returning Service Members. In the following PSA’s now airing on

Nearly two decades of entrenchments in the Middle East have conditioned Americans to think of matters of national security in terms of color-coded terrorism threat advisory scales, missiles, and bio-chemicals, but Home Base’s Executive Director, retired Brigadier General Jack Hammond, sees things differently, citing “obesity and poor education” as two major threats to the United States’

Dear Friends of Home Base, What does Memorial Day mean to you? There’s the simple answer, of course: it’s a day to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. It means a long weekend; it means parades down Main Street and flags adorning gravestones. It means fireworks and cold

For Karen Belliveau from Worcester, Massachusetts, this year’s Run to Home Base presented by New Balance on July 28th at Fenway will be her sixth “race to heal the invisible wounds”. Since 2012, Belliveau has participated and finished the event every year, raising money to support Home Base’s mission to help Veterans, Service Members, and

“Get out and hug a Veteran today.” That’s the message Dan Darroch from Attleboro, Massachusetts is broadcasting across the Nation as he trains for the July 28th Run to Home Base presented by New Balance at Fenway this summer. His plan is to raise $2,000 in support of Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and

On November 22, 2017, Lauren Horth of Bolton, Connecticut, received the news no one wants to hear: her friend and United States Navy Lieutenant Steven “Deet” Combs Jr. lost his life in service to his country. The plane he was piloting made a forced emergency crash water landing in the Philippine Sea. Through Combs’ efforts,

Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program Applauds Bipartisan Support for Legislation Last week, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and David Perdue (R-GA), and Representatives Steve Knight (R-CA) and Niki Tsongas (D-MA), members of the Armed Services Committee, introduced language in the Senate and House respectively, that would provide comprehensive care for military

For some, golf can be a time-consuming and stressful sport. But for those who have confronted real trauma and stress, golf can heal. That was the theme at this year’s 7th annual Home Base Family and Golf Outing at the Kensington Golf & Country Club. The event, hosted by Naples resident 4-star U.S. Army General (ret.) Fred

Robert Farnsworth is a patriotic American – a combat Veteran who spent eight years in the military, a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army and a Sniper in Iraq. In Iraq, Farnsworth placed his life on the line for his Nation against an enemy who set out to destroy the very freedom he swore to protect.